Top Tune #11

I can't believe how long it's been since I've done one of these posts. But with exactly one month until my guess/due date, I figured it was time that I shared what's been repeating on my CD player.

We're on the cusp of yet another huge life change. Roy and I were talking the other day, marveling over the fact that we met and moved in together in 2005, got engaged in 2006, got married in 2007, got pregnant in 2008, had our first baby in 2009, got pregnant again in 2010, and will have our second child by the time 2011 rolls in. That's a whole lot of changes in less than six years, but honestly I wouldn't do it any differently.

I am acutely aware of how my life as it is now will never be the same again. We've managed to get into a pretty good groove with two adults and one child, and all of that is about to explode into chaos. I am both excited and terrified, and in many ways I find myself already looking back on this pre-Burt Reynolds time with a strong sense of bittersweet nostalgia, very similarly to the way that I look back on other times in my life. And yet I absolutely can't wait to meet my second son and see who he is and what he's about.

But that's exactly what I'll do. Just wait.



We Used to Wait by Arcade Fire

Lyrics:

I used to write
I used to write letters
I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night
Before the flashing lights settled deep in my brain
But by the time we met
The times had already changed
So I never wrote a letter
I never took my true heart
I never wrote it down
So when the lights cut out
I was left standing in the wilderness downtown

Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last

It seems strange
How we used to wait for letters to arrive
But what's stranger still
Is how something so small can keep you alive
We used to wait
We used to waste hours just walkin around
We used to wait
All those wasted lives in the wilderness downtown

Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Still moving through the pain

I'm gonna write a letter to my true love
I'm gonna sign my name
Like a patient on a table
I wanna walk again
Gonna move through the pain

Now our lives are changing fast
Hope that something pure can last

Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Sometimes it never came
Ooooo we used to wait
Still moving through the pain

We used to wait for it
Now we're screaming
Sing the chorus again

I used to wait for it
Hear my voice screaming
Sing the chorus again

Wait for it